<span class=normal>So how did you get your break in films? <BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>After, another three months of searching, I was offered a job as a production assistant in the art department of a small independent. I ended up drawing all the sets for the film as well as helping with the construction and paint on those sets. I also worked with the props and special effects departments, on set. My big special effects effort was recreating falling snow outside of a window, by flying potato flakes off a twelve foot platform; did I mention it was a very low budget feature, but it was great fun and I was living the dream. <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>Out of all the departments in film what inspired you to take up production design? <BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>I always ended up taking small courses in film; whether they are about Bergman or American films of the 70s. Before I went to study architecture for a term in Rome, I took a course on Italian Cinema. My favourite place in the library to study Structures and Materials or Calculus was in the film section where I would end up reading critiques by Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris or the articles in Cahiers du Cinema. It dawned on me that somehow film was going to be in my future. It wasnt until I had a degree in architecture, and a few years of practical design and building behind me, that I gained the confidence to say, I could make a contribution behind the camera.</span>